Rory McIlroy has responded to former Ryder Cup hero Ian Poulter's comments on captaining the European side
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00:00With the guys that left, Poulter, Westwood,
00:03we don't, how can these young up-and-comers
00:10build a rapport with them when they're never here
00:12or you can't see them?
00:13So I think that's a really important part
00:16of a Ryder Cup and a Ryder Cup captaincy.
00:20I'm not saying that Poulter doesn't have the credentials
00:22to be a Ryder Cup captain, but I just think
00:24with the current state of where everything is,
00:29you need someone that's around and showing their face
00:32as much as they can, and right now,
00:35that honestly just can't be them
00:37because they're elsewhere.
00:41On a personal level, sorry to follow up,
00:42but on a personal level, would you have any objections
00:44to being captained by Ian Poulter, Lee Westwood,
00:47or whoever else it could potentially be?
00:50I mean, it's such a grey area.
00:52There's some that I would be okay with,
00:54and there'd be others that I wouldn't be okay with.